A strange report today about the new kingdom of Mercia which may appear, with Birmingham as it's capital. It ended with a mock up of Mercia Today, in an Old English font. BBC presentation won't be too pleased about that.
tonight central started a new series in which reporters look into a story which they feel strongly about. it is an interesting idea, and i look forward to seeing how it works out. my immediate reaction was to think about bias and whether it is journalistic-ally proper ... but then its sort of like what pilger does so well on itv. as i say, interesting experiment - i hope it works.
Philip Cobbold posted:
A strange report today about the new kingdom of Mercia which may appear, with Birmingham as it's capital. It ended with a mock up of Mercia Today, in an Old English font. BBC presentation won't be too pleased about that.
what lovely weather for mercian independence day. now all we need to do is expel those evil london imperialist aggressors who have been illegally occupying the glorious midlands since 1066. i suggest extending offa's dyke all around the perimeter of god's country.
lovely titles from pebble mill to celebrate - which very much proves they have a clean copy of the pulsating circles background. i love the way they added "BBC NEWS" totally *wrong*. another poke in the eye for london.
On Midlands Today, Mike did a presentation about Breast Cancer - and was recorded using the CSO screen - but unusually it didn't fill the whole screen as usual:
Also, it required the person reporting on the 2008 Capital of Culture bid for Birmingham to tell us how fab Birmingham was by sitting in an edit suite at the end of her report:
Also, Midlands Today doing what it does best - plugging the unknown 'talent' and it would seem that they've discovered a boyband duo with very bad hair:
i thought that by line reports sting music was familiar ... its the same piece used on the final incarnation of spotlight asia which was the central regional show broadcast at 5.00 am at the weekend.
tonights was by joel about the tippon taleban - i didn't think anyone really cared about them iirc the phone-poll central ran around the time ended up that 97% of viewers thought they should stay locked up in camp delta - and it seems the americans agree
Also, Midlands Today doing what it does best - plugging the unknown 'talent' and it would seem that they've discovered a boyband duo with very bad hair:
Rather amusing little thing on Central tonight - astons for Tessa Jowell and Sir Jeremy Isaacs read "Anti-Birmingham minister" and "Anti-Birmingham chairman" respectively...not that the Central News team is bitter of course. Also, it included a lovely look at what was good about the Midlands in A-Z form...and Bob was saying nothing about Liverpool being the winning city and that Cherie Blair comes from there.
Also, Midlands Today went all out on it - including a look (like Central News) at all the best Midlands features...which includes Shefali according to Nick - and her charts didn't work either. Oh well. Suzanne said he was off to cry into a kleenex and was certain we were robbed.
Rather amusing little thing on Central tonight - astons for Tessa Jowell and Sir Jeremy Isaacs read "Anti-Birmingham minister" and "Anti-Birmingham chairman" respectively...not that the Central News team is bitter of course. Also, it included a lovely look at what was good about the Midlands in A-Z form...and Bob was saying nothing about Liverpool being the winning city and that Cherie Blair comes from there.
Also, Midlands Today went all out on it - including a look (like Central News) at all the best Midlands features...which includes Shefali according to Nick - and her charts didn't work either. Oh well. Suzanne said he was off to cry into a kleenex and was certain we were robbed.
No caps tonight I'm afraid though.
yeah central and bbc mids treated the story with the contempt it deserved - they know the midlands is better than all that.
and notice a new variation of the british midland intros for central weather - must have made their debut on june 1st - i presume that means no lovely jessops sponsorship this summer oh and the baby now has a voice to laugh with.
http://www.andrew986.clara.co.uk/capitalofculture-result04.jpg
just before the capital of culture announcement kay was confident we would win - and said after the weather "lets hope the sun has shone on the righteous when we go back to the ikon gallery in half an hour - bye bye"
and tonight - during midlands todays "why birmingham is so fab" feature - suzanne gave us a good look at that new outfit. only suzanne could get away with that colour. a vision in pink i'm sure we all agree.
http://www.andrew986.clara.co.uk/capitalofculture-result07.jpg
oh and that fat kid in liverpool annyed the hell out of me - he was on every shot this morning.
Oh my god - poor Kay. She looks distraught! I don't think the judges took her wonderful qualities into account when they judged us. I feel unfulfilled as a midlander - let down so to speak.
Well I'm sorry but this really shows the midlands up in their true colours. For Central News to put up "Anti-Birmingham" minister just demonstrates how unprofessional they really are. They should remain objective to reporting the facts, even if its a decision that goes against the region. Simply because Tessa Jowell didn't pick out Birmingham, doesn't make her Anti-Birmingham or Anti-Cardiff, Anti-Newcastle or Anti-Anything Else, fact is there could only be one winner. Just how self indulgent is this region to turn it around into some kind of personal vendetta ?
What a shame they couldn't have been magnanimous in defeat towards their rivals. Poor form. Midlanders need to wake up and realise that the world does not revolve around them.
Well I'm sorry but this really shows the midlands up in their true colours. For Central News to put up "Anti-Birmingham" minister just demonstrates how unprofessional they really are. They should remain objective to reporting the facts, even if its a decision that goes against the region. Simply because Tessa Jowell didn't pick out Birmingham, doesn't make her Anti-Birmingham or Anti-Cardiff, Anti-Newcastle or Anti-Anything Else, fact is there could only be one winner. Just how self indulgent is this region to turn it around into some kind of personal vendetta ?
What a shame they couldn't have been magnanimous in defeat towards their rivals. Poor form. Midlanders need to wake up and realise that the world does not revolve around them.
Here, here. I agree with you totally, Square Eyes. It is very unprofessional. Because everything usually revolves around London, and then after that Birmingham is "the 2nd city", anywhere further north doesn't get a look-in. I'm therefore glad that somewhere northern won, and that it wasn't Manchester (I've nothing against Manchester, it's just that - north of Brum - Manchester is the "obvious" place; kinda like "the 3rd city", if you will)
And so speaks I, a midlander (I Iive near Coventry).
By the way, I'm not totally clear how this European Capital of Culture thing works. I take it one place from each EU country is picked, rather than one for the whole continent????? (Because I can't imagine that any UK place would win if it were continent-wide).
Also, is it Liverpool for the whole UK, or is there also a Welsh, Scottish and NI winner? It's seems a bit sh*tty that somewhere in England should win for the UK, as usual. I feel sorry for the other UK nations always having to play second fiddle.
iirc the phone-poll central ran around the time ended up that 97% of viewers thought they should stay locked up in camp delta - and it seems the americans agree
oh and the baby now has a voice to laugh with.